When do you use apostrophe?

Answer 1

There's - There is.

He's - He is.

To show the form of a word.

You also use it when there is an s already there..uh, lemme show you.

Seuss' -

Otherwise..It would look like: Seuss's.

I may not be 100% correct.. Sorry.

Answer 2

People have a lot of trouble with this, but it's quite easy. You use apostrophes in the following cases:

1. to indicate letters that are removed when you make a contraction. So, when "do not" becomes "don't" the apostrophe shows where you removed a letter. Only use one apostrophe no matter how many letters are removed.

2. to make a word possessive. i.e., "the cat's meow." There is an apostrophe in cat's because the word MEOW belongs to the word CAT. It's not just any meow, it's the cat's. Get it?

Where people go wrong is whether to put the apostrophe before or after the S. There is a simple rule: the apostrophe goes at the end of the root word, and then you add an S if there is not one. So if the word is plural, it likely has an S, and the apostrophe goes after. EXAMPLE: the girl's dorm or the girls' dorm ? The first one uses the root word GIRL and refers to the dorm of a specific individual girl. The second example has a root word GIRLS and it's referring to a dorm that belongs to more than one girl. Just make sure the portion of the word BEFORE the apostrophe makes sense in the sentence, and you will not go wrong. Thus, you can say the "children's socks" and it's okay that the apostrophe is before the S because "children" is the root word and it's plural.

3. Do not use an apostrophe to make a word plural. Ever.

4. Do not use an apostrophe to make an acronym plural either. It's CDs, DVDs, and TVs, not CD's, DVD's, or TV's. That said, an acronym could be possessive, as in, "the DVD's case." In that case, you do add an apostrophe.

NOTES: In cases of double possession, use the apostrophe after the last name only. In other words, it's Ben and Jerry's ice cream, not Ben's and Jerry's ice Cream.

ALSO: be careful not to use an apostrophe in a possessive pronoun. Most people know that they should use his, hers, and theirs, not hi's, her's, and their's, but they mess up with its. When you use an apostrophe (it's) you are saying "IT IS". When there is no apostrophe, the word is possessive already and doesn't need anything added to it. Don't say "ever dog has it's day" because that means "ever dog has it is day."